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Lawyers win access to Lankan detainees
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 1 day ago
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Arsineh Houspian Immigration Minister Brendan O'Connor has granted lawyers access to two Tamil asylum seekers who feared they would be sent back to Sri Lanka. One asylum seeker, who cannot be named, emailed refugee lawyer David Manne from Christmas
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Contra Costa County softening policies on immigrant deportations
Pittsburg :: CA :: USA | 2 days ago
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The Contra Costa Sheriff's Office is finalizing a new immigrant detention policy that would decrease the number of deportations stemming out of County Jail. The new policy, announced at an immigration reform forum in Pittsburg on Thursday night,
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12 arrested over Qld detention centre breakout
Sydney :: Australia | 2 days ago
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Qld detention centre breakout Updated May 24, 2013 09:03:05 Authorities have arrested 12 people allegedly involved in a mass breakout at an immigration detention centre in far north Queensland. Seven men escaped from the heavily-guarded Scherger
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Detainee self-harm falls but figures questioned
Melbourne :: Australia | 5 days ago
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Angela Wylie Self-harm rates among asylum seekers in Australian detention centres has dramatically fallen since September 2011. But an independent report by the Commonwealth and Immigration Ombudsman has lambasted the record-keeping practices of the
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Jump off here for the UK: Looking like Casper the Ghost, migrants smuggled here inside a flour tanker... only to be set free by border officials and told how to claim asylum
Sevenoaks :: United Kingdom | 8 days ago
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17 May 2013 Covered in flour, they clamber from a foreign lorry to the amazement of other motorists on a busy motorway. This is the moment that at least nine suspected illegal immigrants emerged from their hiding place after smuggling themselves into
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UK Immigration Courts: fresh observations from the Public Gallery
Serre Kunda :: Gambia | 10 days ago
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May 2013 Two years ago trained members of the public attending immigration bail hearings published their first report, "A Travesty of Justice"...Unfairness and lack of due process persist. "I am not going to abscond. I trust myself not to...These
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McFarland wants detention plan aired
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 10 days ago
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May 15, 2013 7:40PM Joliet City Councilman Jim McFarland said Wedneday its time for a public airing on an immigrant detention facility. McFarland, who was elected to the council in April with support from opponents of a detention facility, said he
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Faster deportations come at the cost of compassion and fairness
Toronto :: Canada | 12 days ago
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EDT (Dave Chan For The Globe and Mail) Immigration Minister Jason Kenney's use of the case of Mahmoud Mohammad Issa Mohammed to justify the draconian reforms to immigration and refugee law that he has implemented is ill founded. Mr. Kenney argues
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Kids demonstrate for dad held in Pompano immigration lock-up
Mexico City :: Mexico | 12 days ago
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Holding a sign that read "Stop Breaking Families," 8-year-old Alexis Rivas marched through the noon heat in front of an immigration detention center Monday to protest the scheduled deportation of his father for the fifth time. "I want to see my dad,"
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NT detention numbers swelled before escape
Ho Chi Minh City :: Vietnam | 13 days ago
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THE escape of 18 asylum seekers from a Darwin detention centre happened while an unusually high number of people were housed at the high-security facility. Security is being tightened at the Northern Immigration Detention Centre after the break-out
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